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Pattali Makkal Katchi on Arani

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 3 OF 8 contested

PMK runner-up 1 time
Strike rate
37.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures
Best vote share47.10%in 1999
Worst vote share20.70%in 2024
Average vote share31.23% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1989
Last contested2024
Votes polled here19.47 Lacross all 8 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Pattali Makkal Katchi vote share in Arani, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 50 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Pattali Makkal Katchi vote share  ·  a ringed point is a year they won this seat  ·  a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 2009, 2019 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

8 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Dr Ganesh Kumar A Me Phd 2,36,571 20.70% 3 Lost · 3rd
2014 A.K.Moorthy 2,53,332 23.10% 3 Lost · 3rd
2004 Ponnuswamy, E. 3,43,424 46.30% 1 Won
1999 Ponnuswamy, E. 3,45,331 47.10% 1 Won
1998 Elumalai Alias Ezhilmalai R. 3,05,372 44.60% 1 Won
1996 Elumalai.R 1,59,898 22.00% 2 Lost · 2nd
1991 Elumalai R. 1,44,946 22.40% 3 Lost · 3rd
1989 Elumalai, R. 1,58,155 23.60% 3 Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National CongressDravida Munetra KazhagamAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamDravida Munnetra KazhagamCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST)Janata Dal (United)Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)IndependentBharatiya Janta PartyDesiya Murpokku Dravida KazhagamBahujan Samaj PartyNaam Tamilar KatchiTharasu Makkal MandaramHumnist Party Of IndiaJharkhand PartyMakkal Needhi MaiamPuthiya Needhi KatchiSamajwadi PartyTamil Nadu Ilangyar KatchiAnaithindia Dravidar Samudaya Munnetra KazhagamAnti Corruption Dynamic PartyThakkam KatchiVeerath Thiyagi Viswanathadoss Thozhilalarkal KatchiViro Ke Vir Indian PartyUnited Republican Party Of IndiaAnna Mgr Dravida Makkal Kalgam

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Arani
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 18:47 UTC

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